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Jose Mosquera

The work of Jose Mosquera, painted in a slow and unhurried fashion with a wise command of the use of light and chromatic values, is characteristic of someone who has mastered his art and who is aware that the fine line separating the figurative from the abstract does not really exist. Using both large and small formats, his works always contain an intrinsic grandiosity that evokes the earthy forces of nature or the enormous effort of human labor. His representations of expansive and desolate plains, imposing mountains and endless overcast horizons as well as dark, bottomless oceans and overgrown cities of massive buildings and smoking factories form the very image of the sublime felt by humankind when contemplating the spectacle of natural phenomena or the panoramic view of a tentacle metropolis.

Jose Mosquera's work can be linked to past artists such as Claudio de Lorena, William Turner, Arnold Brocklin or James Abbot Whistler and also with more contemporary artists such as the photographer Alfred Stieglitz or the abstract painter Mark Rothko. The compositions of Mosquera belong to the sphere of the sublime and to the art of the symbolic expression of an extreme and subjective sensitivity inherited from the romantic opposition of the self and the other before both pristine Nature and the world transformed by man. His work is related to the poetic sense of the Germanic Sturm und Drang (literally, storm and stress) and to the renewed dramatic feeling of the reality of contemporary philosophy. Mosquera is both a born artist and a visionary painter.

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	Title: El Puente          (The Bridge) Size: 146 x 114 cm Medium: Oil on Canvas
	Title: Arecife (The Cliff) Size: 33 x 41 cm Medium: Oil on Board